News, Op-Eds, Essays & Reviews

In creating this site, it is our speculation that the time is right for observations from academia about how money works to emerge in more mainstream outlets concerned with a wider range of topics. The pieces we spot are below. To read the people who have done the heavy lifting over the past years, we recommend you also look at our Useful Blogs page under the Resources menu tab.

We don’t need a balanced budget amendment (Daily Mail) ““We changed our monetary system, but not our economics textbooks.” In the post gold-standard era, taxes paid to the national government do not — repeat, do not — pay for The Pentagon or new curtains for the Oval Office.”
— Alan R. Knight, Charleston Gazette-Mail, Jan 29, 2018